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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What upsets Sophie after she hears the lesson on Berkeley?
(a) She learns about her father's death.
(b) She sees that Hilde is taking over her life.
(c) She knows she will die soon.
(d) She knows she and Alberto exist in the mind of the Major.

2. To Sartre, what is existentialism?
(a) A path to leaving all danger.
(b) Man creates himself and his values.
(c) The belief that love does not exist.
(d) Putting others ahead of yourself.

3. How does Kant explain the place of faith in people's lives?
(a) Faith reaches those in pain.
(b) Faith fills a space where reason and perception fail.
(c) Faith has a place where ignorance is.
(d) Faith provides laws and guidelines for new cultures.

4. What does Hilde's father order her to do?
(a) Go to school.
(b) Date Jeremy.
(c) Finish the book.
(d) Join the Transcendentalist club.

5. What is the conflict of Marx's day?
(a) Children against parents.
(b) Religious leaders against citizens.
(c) Russia against the world.
(d) Workers against factory owners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Sophie and Alberto after their adventures in the binder end?

2. Simone de Beauvoir in her book "The Second Sex" states that women can choose an identity that is what?

3. What is Hilde planning to do to rebel against her father?

4. What does Hilde think of Sophie and Alberto?

5. What ideals characterize the Romantic period?

Short Essay Questions

1. Freud analyzes dreams. What sort of dreams do people analyze today? Why would people want to analyze their dreams?

2. Sartre believes that freedom is a sort of curse, because freedom forces Man to make choices without guidelines. Is this applicable to Sophie's life? How?

3. Why does the old woman take Sophie and Alberto to the storybook character's camp?

4. Were you confused by Darwin's theory at all? Explain how you were or weren't.

5. Kierkegaard coined the slogan, "Question Authority." Write about two instances where you have seen this slogan used in our culture.

6. Was it odd when Sophie met Alice in Wonderland and Winnie the Pooh? Why or why not?

7. Why do the Ingebrightsens become upset with Alberto's speech?

8. The ideal of the romantics is for complete originality. Does our culture still value that ideal today? How?

9. Why does Sophie become shocked when she sees "Sophie's World" on a bookshelf?

10. To Hegel, truth is not a set thing, but something that changes. What do you think of this theory? Why?

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